Meet GNOM, the forthcoming solo project of Anders Bach, and hear how an ethereally ambient album developed into a noisy and extreme musical expression shaped by tragedy. Confronting grief, his approach to making music went from intellectual and subtle to musically clear and deeply personal. His album “Bitumenic” releases June 9th.

To begin with, the first sketches for the album were spiritual and abstract. By first adding physical drums, he connected to a feral instinct and a melodic emotionality. He worked with Fire-Toolz aka. Angel Marcloid, further driving the album in a direction resonating with Anders' explosive emotional proces. It became an album that emphasizes and embraces the pleasure part of "guilty pleasure", expressing joy in the face of fear or even death.

Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz)
2. GNOM - Unreleased sketch
3. GNOM - Unreleased sketch
4. GNOM - Unreleased sketch
5. GNOM - Coagulate
6. GNOM - Hark Hark! The Lark Does Liquesce
7. Fire-Toolz - It is Happening Again (Thank You, Council Of Saturn!)
8. GNOM - This Strain Of The Self (feat. Fire-Toolz)
9. GNOM - O Is For Obedience
10. GNOM - Coagulate
11. GNOM - Sister: Let Hel Hold What She Has
12. GNOM - The Bile
13. GNOM - Entry Plug, The Vessel Of The Heart
14. GNOM - Foot (feat. Seiðr)

Meet composer and clarinetist Carolyn Goodwin, founder of Copenhagen Clarinet Choir, and hear her musical origin story in both words and sounds. She originally studied classical saxophone and played new compositions. Later in life, she discovered improvised music.

She talks about her methods of composing for improvisation, such as defining simple ideas as musical spaces to move through and explore in sequence, like the life of a newly hatched bird growing from whisper songs to singing in flight. Improvisation, to Carolyn, is about listening, working with subtle textures, nuances, and overtones, discovering the limit of what her instrument can do, and also discovering the power to take whatever is encountered in the musical space and sending it new directions.

Produced by Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Organism
2. Clang Sayne - Curse You Mocking Moon
3. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Flocking, Part 1
4. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Flocking, Part 2
5. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Hive Mind
6. Copenhagen Clarinet Choir - Water Piece

Meet Copenhagen-based musician and producer Debbie Sings. She talks about how her musical project is a learning process through copying and sampling, trial and error, creating a chaotic output of different inspirations, contrasts and extremes.

Learning how to make music with a computer freed and empowered her to do whatever she wanted, creating a universe that both she and her audience can escape into from reality for a while. Not unlike the traditional 50s pop that inspires her like a broken romantic picture of sweet melancholy, her music expresses a happy mood even as the lyrics contain deeper and darker emotions.

Produced by Louise Tandrup Esbensen and Mei Bao

Supported by The Danish Arts Foundation and The Augustinus Foundation

TRACKLIST:

1. Debbie Sings: Satanizer
2. Debbie Sings: WhOOsh
3. SOPHIE: Lemonade
4. Debbie Sings: Godspeed
5. Bernadette Caroll: Care a Little
6. Debbie Sings: No Title (Performed at Vegas Livesession)
7. Debbie Sings: F My Tears Away
8. Debbie Sings and Jens Aagaard: Kæmpe mix 266